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Lactalis backs Seriously Spreadable with a £1.2m TV push
Lactalis UK & Ireland puts £1.2m behind a reprised Seriously Spreadable TV ad. Marketing Minute on why consistency and share of voice beat novelty in FMCG.
Aug 123 min read


Confused.com brings British idioms to life with puppets
Confused.com and Leo UK bring British idioms to life with handcrafted animal puppets. Marketing Minute on fame-building in a grudge-purchase category and the AI-plus-craft model.
Aug 123 min read


France 2 tops July as M6 posts its best month in 20 years
French TV audience data for July 2026 shows France 2 leading on 17.0%, ahead of TF1, while M6 recorded its strongest month in two decades on World Cup football — reshaping the buy for advertisers.
Aug 43 min read


Beefeater 0.0 revives Jamiroquai's ‘Virtual Insanity’ for the no/lo era
Beefeater 0.0's new Lucky Generals campaign reanimates Jamiroquai's 1996 ‘Virtual Insanity’ as a sequel — a nostalgia-led play riding the fast-growing no/lo drinks trend.
Aug 42 min read


UK TV’s tale of two markets: linear stalls as addressable jumps 15.5%
The latest AA/WARC Expenditure Report shows UK ad spend hit £11.7bn in Q1 2026 (+9.3%). But TV’s 0.8% headline hides a split: linear flat, addressable up 15.5%.
Jul 313 min read


Pets at Home makes 'The Perfect Poo' the hero — the smartest gross-out in UK retail
Pets at Home has built a national campaign around 'The Perfect Poo' — a cheeky but genuinely diagnostic sign of the right pet food — turning staff expertise into a talkable idea. Here's the lesson for retailers.
Jul 302 min read


Beldray makes its TV debut as ITV woos first-time advertisers
Homeware brand Beldray’s first-ever TV campaign, run through ITV’s spend-matching Backing Business scheme, is a template for how UK SMEs can finally afford television.
Jul 283 min read


Video budgets hit strongest level in almost two years
Video is the standout winner in the latest IPA Bellwether as marketers back moving-image formats across social and connected TV.
Jul 202 min read


Your Biggest Competitor Isn't Another Brand. It's Distraction.
Today's brands are no longer competing only with other brands. They're competing with every notification, every scroll, every video and every piece of content fighting for a consumer's attention.
Jul 162 min read


“Shorts of the Future”: YouTube Adds Veo 3 AI Video Generation — What It Means for Marketers
One Minute Summary YouTube is embedding Google’s Veo 3 directly into Shorts, letting creators generate short, stylised clips from prompts — with native audio — inside the app.
Sep 25, 20253 min read
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